Built in 1933, the Cape Cod Railroad Bridge is a marvelous mix of precise engineering and rugged construction. There are only a few vertical lift bridges of this design in…
After a short but beautiful drive a few miles up the Maine coast and past York Harbor, I reached the famous lighthouse that sits on an island just a few…
Perched at the top of Cape Ann some 40 miles north of Boston, Rockport has long been a tourist attraction. Its snug harbor, highlighted by a red fishing (or lobster)…
Susan and I rendezvoused with our son Geoff and his family at the Grand Canyon in mid-July at the height of the tourist season. Our major accomplishment was finding a…
As Susan and I drove east in July 2016 we stopped briefly at two contrasting places. The first was a brief visit to Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border. It…
While I was up at Pinecrest in the Sierras this June, I decided to take a different photographic tack. Rather than my usual collection of images of a particular area,…
Not everyone realizes that there is another 300+ miles of California coastline north of San Francisco. If what's south of Monterey is Big Sur, this even larger area is "Big…
In late May, 2016, my friend Jerry and I traveled to far northern California to Redwood National Park and a variety of State Parks located between Eureka and Crescent City. It…
A morning hike in springtime in the Mount Diablo foothills is truly soul-refreshing. These images were made in the hills above Borges Ranch here in Walnut Creek. That I was on…
Susan and I celebrated her birthday and Leap Day 2016 with friends, Jenny and Chuck, at one of our favorite places on earth: the Monterey Peninsula, including a visit to Point Lobos Reserve…
During 2015 I have tried my hand at astrophotography, and all the shots here are shown in chronological order. There have been two lunar eclipses, one in April, another in…
I have been to Yellowstone National Park a number of times, but never before in the crowds of August. Happily, Yellowstone is a huge place and it mostly seems pretty…
On our last two nights at our summer home in Wareham, Massachusetts, we enjoyed a "blue moon" rising, followed the next day by a gorgeous sunset over the Broadmarsh River, which…
Susan and I recently visited Niagara Falls, Ontario on the Canadian side of the falls. We stayed at the Fallsview Hilton on the 36th floor, which afforded an almost bird's…
As part of the biannual "DeWitt Family Reunion," a number of us visited ChicagoOn the 4th of July. We took the "Architecture Boat Tour," which offers outstanding views of many…
In May, 2015, five hearty adventurers traveled to the unique red rock country around Moab, Utah. In addition to two well-known national parks--Arches and Canyonlands--there are astounding rock formations, cliffs,…
On a beautiful March morning, Susan and I drove out on Marsh Creek Road, south on Morgan Territory Road on the east side of Mt. Diablo, to Livermore for lunch…
Yesterday, two friends and I discussed image composition and then we took a field trip to the Heather Farm Garden Center and Heather Farm Park, both of which are steps outside…
After two disappointing evenings at Mono Lake, we hit the photographic jackpot on Sunday morning, November 16. Temperature at the lake was a crisp 18F and we were encouraged by…
At about 10,000 feet elevation in the semi-arid White Mountains of California live the oldest species on earth: the ancient bristlecone pine (pinus longaeva). One of them has been measured at…